Building on the two previous waves (2009 and 2014), the third European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER 2019) collected responses from 45,420 establishments across all business size classes and activity sectors in 33 countries, comprising the EU-27 as well as Iceland, Nort...
Digitalisation has led to a noticeable change for jobs and working tasks, leaving almost no field of work unchanged. The development of recent technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced robotics, has established new possibilities for task automation and revived the debate es...
As a consequence of digitalisation, jobs and working tasks are continuously changing. The development of recent technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced robotics, has especially established new possibilities for task automation and revived the debate on work-related psycho...
Digital technologies play an important role in our everyday lives, as well as in our workplaces. The intro-duction of new systems and technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) or advanced robotics, hold the potential to change a number of aspects related to the way human labour is desig...
Based on research by the European Commission (2021), the European Parliamentary Research Services (2020a), the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (2019a), and EU-OSHA (2019), artificial intelligence (AI)-based worker management (AIWM) is an umbrella term that refers to a worker m...
The European human health and social work activities sector is a key sector in terms of ensuring the health and wellbeing of Europe’s citizens, including its workforce. The human health and social work activities sector is one of the largest in Europe, employing around 11% of workers in the Euro...
Main objectives of the study The main objective of this study was to examine how companies, and in particular micro and small enterprises (MSEs) manage psychosocial risks to better understand what works in managing these risks. The more specific aims of this study were to: - Complement the Third...
This report summarises the main findings of a research project on digital platform work carried out on behalf of the EU-OSHA in 2021 that aims to contribute to a better understanding of safety and health in platform work by mapping OSH challenges and opportunities and exploring if and how these ...
This study was carried out against the background of an EU policy shift towards more environmentally sustainable practices, with several policy initiatives driving efforts in the circular economy (CE) arena. These initiatives, and indeed the CE as a whole, are widely considered to be critical an...
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is implementing a multiannual research activity focusing on work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), which started in 2018 and will conclude at the end of 2021. This activity contributes to the European Healthy Workplaces Campaign...